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Delegates and Alternates to the 17th National Convention of the Socialist Party of America
Convention was held May 20 - 24, 1932, in Milwaukee, WI
The following is an official published list of elected delegates and alternates. It does not necessarily reflect actual attendance.
Arkansas
Manford Ettinger
Sam Sandberg (Alt.)
California
Marion Alderton
William Busick
Mrs. William Busick
Kate Crane Gartz
H.A. Hedden
George Kirkpatrick
Irena Kotowa
A. Levin
Julius Levitt
David Lyon
Mervin Levy
John Packard
Mrs. John Packard
Joseph Pietruszewski
E.E. Porter
Chaim Shapiro
Sam Weisenberg
Joe Zameres
Elenora Zamorska
Colorado
Morton Alexander
B.L. Coleman
J.A. Kimber
Carle Whitehead
Connecticut
Minnie Cederholm
Fred Cederholm
Walter E. Davis
Arnold E. Freese
Jasper McLevy
District of Columbia
Marx Lewis
Delaware
Sam Silver
Florida
J.J. Patton
Georgia
Charles Weintraub
Illinois
Ivar A. Anderson
Morris Blumin
Roy Burt
George Chant
John Collins
Jess Cripe
Adolph Dreifuss
Morris Franklin
Anton Garden
Owen Geer
R.B. Green
Meyer Halushka
Ben Larks
F. Matteoni
Paula Milgrom
Hyman Schneid
Fannie Schneid
Morris Seskind
Carl Sweet
Fred Wellman
Frank Zaitz
Oscar Elet (Alt.)
Harold Kelso (Alt.)
Donald Lotrich (Alt.)
Jane McDowell (Alt.)
Jacob Siegel (Alt.)
Ed Verburg (Alt.)
Indiana
Eugene Cooney
Powers Hapgood
Edward Henry
Phil Reinbold
Wilbur Sheron
H.W, Daacke (Alt.)
R. Johnson (Alt.)
H.L. Murch (Alt.)
W.R. Richards (Alt.)
Roy Wilson (Alt.)
Kansas
Joseph Cornell
Marcet Haldeman-Julius
Fred Hurd
Roy Ingraham
Ross Magill
M.L. Phillips
Anton Shular
Ida A. Beloof (Alt.)
Ralph Gilman (Alt.)
A.J. Graham (Alt.)
Enoch Greer (Alt.)
John Stone (Alt.)
Kentucky
J.L. Stark
Maine
Donald M. Smith
Gordon Watt
Maryland
Charles Bernstein
Elizabeth Gilman
S.M. Neistadt
Massachusetts
Leo Arkin
Joseph Bearak
Albert Sprague Coolidge
Charles Hill
Alfred Baker Lewis
Eileen O'Connor
George E. Roewer
Lester Shulman
Glen Trimble
Michigan
Hallen Bell
Francis King
Axel Londal
Walter Morris
Arthur Rubenstein
R. Benedict (Alt.)
Walter Bergman (Alt.)
Harry Riseman (Alt.)
Jean Seidell (Alt.)
Neil Staebler (Alt.)
Minnesota
P.R. Anderson
Leo Gisslen
J.A. Gonstead
Morris Kaplan
August Prohofsky
Sigmond Slonim
Lynn Thompson
O.P. Victorian
Mrs. George Daggett (Alt.)
Mrs. J.A. Gonstead (Alt.)
E.H.H. Holman (Alt.)
Missouri
B. Cohen
Joseph G. Hodges
G.A. Hoehn
H. Ommerman
Mrs. Ray Moss (Alt.)
H.J. Sutton (Alt.)
Montana
James D. Graham
Nebraska
Gray Bemis
Samuel Lerner
John M. Paul
Wilbur E. Sanford
Harry Uerling
William Bishoff (Alt.)
Glenn Griffith (Alt.)
New Hampshire
Emil Hangas
New Mexico
John Williams
New Jersey
George Goebel
Henry Jager
Harry Nelson
Herman F. Niessner
Morris Stempa
Andrew P. Wittel
New York
Samuel E. Beardsley
A. Belsky
Simon Berlin
Morris Berman
Paul Blanshard
Heywood Broun
N. Chanin
Samuel DeWitt
William M. Feigenbaum
Esther Friedman
Henry Fruchter
G. August Gerber
Julius Gerber
Wilho Hedman
Louis Hendin
Morris Hillquit
William H. Hilsdorf
Robert A. Hoffman
Vladimir Karapetoff
William Karlin
Harry W. Laidler
Algernon Lee
Olga Long
Bela Low
Herbert M. Merrill
Ray Newkirk
James Oneal
Samuel Orr
Jacob Panken
Bernard J. Riley
Louis Schaffer
Charles Solomon
Carl P. Svenssen
Monroe M. Sweetland, Jr.
Norman Thomas
Jules Umansky
B.C. Vladeck
Sarah Volovick
Louis Waldman
Theresa B. Wiley
Jack Altman (Alt.)
Jacob Axelrod (Alt.)
Murray Baron (Alt.)
August G. H. Batten (Alt.)
Joseph Beckerman (Alt.)
Richard M. Briggs (Alt.)
Emil Bromberg (Alt.)
Ethelred Brown (Alt.)
Sofus W, Christensen (Alt.)
August Claessens (Alt.)
Winston Dancis (Alt.)
Nathan Fine (Alt.)
Samuel H. Friedman (Alt.)
W.L. Herman (Alt.)
Arthur Jacobsen (Alt.)
Joseph Laventhal (Alt.)
Edward Levinson (Alt.)
Louis Lison (Alt.)
J.B. Matthews (Alt.)
I. Minkoff (Alt.)
Paul Porter (Alt.)
Carl Parsons (Alt.)
Sol Perrin (Alt.)
S. Romualdi (Alt.)
Elizabeth C. Roth (Alt.)
J.G. Roth (Alt.)
Henry Rosner (Alt.)
Theodore Shapiro (Alt.)
Joseph Tuvin (Alt.)
Girolamo Valenti (Alt.)
Joseph Viola (Alt.)
A.N. Weinberg (Alt.)
William Young (Alt.)
Oklahoma
Allen C. Adams
Oscar Ameringer
Newman Jeffery
M. Shadid
A.B. Zigler
Mrs. Newman Jeffery (Alt.)
Ohio
J. Duddle
Joseph Martinek
Alex Ranen
Joseph W. Sharts
Meyer Weintraub
John Willert
Max Wohl
Sidney Yellen
Charles Pinter (Alt.)
Frank Tancek (Alt.)
Oregon
George R. Buickerood
Charles Kolb
V.P. Martin
Albert Streiff
Pennsylvania
Franz Daniel
Fred Gendral
Jesse George
Jacob Halderman, Jr.
Darlington Hoopes
Anna Krasna
Sarah Limbach
James H. Maurer
Sarah Limbach
James H. Maurer
Leo Pryzlinski
George Rhodes
Joseph Schwartz
Joshua J. Sherman
George W. Snyder
J. Henry Stump
William J. Van Essen
James S. Van Horn
Birch Wilson
Lilith Wilson
Charles W. Young
Anton Zornik
Rhode Island
Jacob Pavlow
Tennessee
Frank Perlamn
Texas
George Clifton Edwards
G.W.M. Taylor
Utah
Earl M. Webber
Mrs. Earl M. Webber
Virginia
Herman Ansell
David George
Winston F. Dawson (Alt.)
Richard L. Johnson (Alt.)
Washington
Will Everett
John M. Glenn
John F. McKay
Walter A. Werth
Helen Coates (Alt.)
H.O. Fuhrberg (Alt.)
Stella K. Garrison (Alt.)
Leo Welsh (Alt.)
West Virginia
Amicus Most
J.H. Snider
Nora Frank (Alt.)
Wisconsin
M.V. Baxter
John Banachowicz
Joseph Becker
Al Benson
John Buresh
L.P. Christianson
William Coleman
Carl P. Dietz
Paul Gauer
Otto R. Hauser
Daniel W. Hoan
John F. Huehnl
Leo Krzycki
J.W. Murdoch
Alfred Nabor
Walter Polakowski
William Quick
Max Raskin
Emil Seidel
Wyoming
Joesph Lunn
W.W. Wolfe
FRATERNAL (NON-VOTING) DELEGATES
Czechoslovak
Charles Glaser
Finnish
George Makela
Italian
S. Pollo
Jewish
Samuel Levitas
Yugoslav [Slovenian]
Charles Pogorelec
Lithuanian
Pius Grigaigis
Polish
J. Trzaska
The March of Socialism, 1928-1932: Journal of the Seventeenth National Convention, Socialist Party, Milwaukee, Wis., May 20-24, 1932. (Chicago: National Headquarters, Socialist Party, 1932), pg. 33.